The Kite Runner

Product details

Listening Length 12 hours and 1 minute

Author Khaled Hosseini

Narrator Khaled Hosseini

Audible.co.uk Release Date 01 August 2003

Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio

Program Type Audiobook

Version Unabridged

Language English

Best Sellers Rank 1,891 in Audible Books & Originals

10 in Political Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

53 in War & Military Fiction

89 in Political Fiction (Books)

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.

The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons - their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption.